Getting fed up...

RustyRatRod said

Amazingly, Autozone of all places used to sell American made and remanned starters, alternators, distributors, water pumps and other parts from a plant they had in Texas years ago. Of course, like other companies lookin to save a buck, now they outsource. It was a shame too, because it used to be quality stuff.

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I worked for them around the time they were shifting away from the domestic rebuilds. Shockingly it wasn't (entirely) a greed thing, they couldn't get enough good cores.
Something like 80% of cores were either the wrong part entirely, massively damaged, or missing critical parts and so got canned and scrapped.
Of course, the "take anything" policy of the big chains practically invited this so it's on them more than the customers.
Cash for clunkers didn't help, nor did a prolonged shitty economy and a volitile commodity market that business a pain and often made it more viable to recycle scrap cars than part them out.